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king_laugh, and it transpired that he has never played the children's game Consequences. Since this sort of thing fits in very nicely with his work with storytelling, I suggested that we try to play online.
Here's how the game works with paper. You have a set structure, which can either be a fill-in-the-blanks story outline or a poetic form. You write the first line, fold over the top of the paper, and everyone passes the paper around to the next person. Then you write the next line and repeat. Your story or poem should make sense in itself, but when it's cut up and mixed up with everyone else's, the results are often hilarious. I've not played this in absolutely years, let's have a try.
There are different formulae you can use. I'll put up the two I know as comments, and if there are any suggestions I'll put up more. If you want to try that formula, reply to that comment. Make sure your story or poem follows the rules, is on separate lines to make it easier for me to cut and paste, and makes sense as a whole in itself. All comments apart from the ones I put up with the formulae will be screened. Once I have as many comments as there are lines for that formula (e.g. three for haiku), I'll cut and paste to rearrange the lines for that set, and then unscreen the comments as well. You can comment on as many formulae as you like, but only one comment per formula, at least until that set of comments has been rearranged and unscreened, and we're onto the next.
ETA: Keep going, folks! I've set up a Shakespeare game here, not that all entries need to be from Shakespeare, and another one for gothic.
king_laugh, and it transpired that he has never played the children's game Consequences. Since this sort of thing fits in very nicely with his work with storytelling, I suggested that we try to play online.Here's how the game works with paper. You have a set structure, which can either be a fill-in-the-blanks story outline or a poetic form. You write the first line, fold over the top of the paper, and everyone passes the paper around to the next person. Then you write the next line and repeat. Your story or poem should make sense in itself, but when it's cut up and mixed up with everyone else's, the results are often hilarious. I've not played this in absolutely years, let's have a try.
There are different formulae you can use. I'll put up the two I know as comments, and if there are any suggestions I'll put up more. If you want to try that formula, reply to that comment. Make sure your story or poem follows the rules, is on separate lines to make it easier for me to cut and paste, and makes sense as a whole in itself. All comments apart from the ones I put up with the formulae will be screened. Once I have as many comments as there are lines for that formula (e.g. three for haiku), I'll cut and paste to rearrange the lines for that set, and then unscreen the comments as well. You can comment on as many formulae as you like, but only one comment per formula, at least until that set of comments has been rearranged and unscreened, and we're onto the next.
ETA: Keep going, folks! I've set up a Shakespeare game here, not that all entries need to be from Shakespeare, and another one for gothic.
